Connotes Vs Denotes Quotes & Sayings

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. — Dave Chappelle

Your reader is at least as bright as you are — William Maxwell

I live not with the intent of leaving my mark in this world, but rather with the intent of leaving my imprint on your heart — Rick Ferreira

The once green leaves have faded to blood-red and autumn herself has wrapped her crisp cloak around your shoulders — Unknown

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality. — Tom DeMarco

Just Tits over and over. During tests it sounded like a forest at night in the classroom. Voices rising singly or several at a time from the focused quiet. Tits. Tits. Titssss. — John Darnielle

What we call men, are the subjects, the individual Stiles and Nokes; not the qualities by which their humanity is constituted. The name, therefore, is said to signify the subjects directly , the attributes indirectly ; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name. — John Stuart Mill

And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. — Nick Hornby

stocked was almost gone. Then she brought the print over to his old couch, a hideously ugly piece of furniture he must have bought secondhand. — Noelle Adams

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word. — Cecelia Ahern

Your peace of mind is all in your head. — Ash Lieb

Well ... he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?
Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him. — J.R. Ward

That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist. — Eoin Colfer

My disappointments, instead of converging toward a center and constituting if not a system at least an ensemble, are scattered, each supposed itself unique and thereby wasted, lacking organization. — Emil M. Cioran